Women Living Zen: Japanese Soto Buddhist Nuns

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Women Living Zen: Japanese Soto Buddhist Nuns

Name: Women Living Zen: Japanese Soto Buddhist Nuns
ISBN: 9781423760139

Paula Kane Robinson Arai

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In this study, based on both historical evidence and ethnographic data, Paula Arai shows that nuns were central agents in the foundation of Buddhism in Japan in the sixth century. They were active participants in the Soto Zen sect, and have continued to contribute to the advancement of the sect to the present day. Drawing on her fieldwork among the Soto nuns, Arai demonstrates that the lives of many of these women embody classical Buddhist ideals. They have chosen to lead a strictly disciplined monastic life over against successful careers and the unconstrained contemporary secular lifestyle. In this, and other respects, they can be shown to stand in stark contrast to their male counterparts.

Κατηγορίες:

Religion & Spirituality - Buddhism

Έτος:

1999

Γλώσσα:

english

Σελίδες:

272

ISBN 10:

1423760131

ISBN 13:

9781423760139